Combatants take to the arena in a state of undress to slug it out in a UFC-style cage, with a clothed crowd cheering them on as they try to grapple their scantily-clad opponents into submission.

This year all the action took place on June 18 in Nice, California, and it proved to be a fiery affair, with lingerie-modelling fighters giving it their all in an attempt to brawl their way through the high-adrenaline tournament.

The event, which has been slammed for being sexist in the past, is described by organisers as “MMA like you’ve never seen it before.”

The tournament’s website claims that nearly 5 million people tuned in to the 20th edition of the championships, whilst this year’s showdown was billed as featuring “some of the most exciting match-ups in modern lingerie MMA history.”